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What is Enabling Technologies

Chapter 274
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
With respect to DR, this term indicates those technologies (e.g. equipment, appliances) that allow an effective implementation of DR programs. Examples could be smart meters, allowing communication between users and utilities, or home appliances that automatically react to price or non-price signals by modifying electricity consumption.
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Potential Benefits and Current Limits in the Development of Demand Response
Clementina Bruno (University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy & HERMES Research Centre, Italy)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch274
Abstract
This chapter, after defining Demand Response (DR) and its potential benefits, illustrates a set of challenges to DR development. A brief review of recent contributions on DR is provided, illustrating that such challenges can come from different sources. Regulatory, technical or socio-economic challenges are considered and discussed. Finally, inter-disciplinary research is suggested as solution to overcome challenges, and some examples of future research directions with respect to economics and social science are provided.
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Chapter 17
Potential Benefits and Current Limits in the Development of Demand Response
With respect to DR, this term indicates those technologies (e.g. equipment, appliances) that allow an effective implementation of DR programs. Examples could be smart meters, allowing communication between users and utilities, or home appliances that automatically react to price or non-price signals by modifying electricity consumption.
Published in Chapter: Potential Benefits and Current Limits in the Development of Demand Response; From: Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Engineering and Environmental Science
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Chapter 4
Making Cities Smarter: IoT and SDN Applications, Challenges, and Future Trends
Enabling technologies are innovations that can transform a user, state, culture or technology for general-purpose operations.
Published in Chapter: Making Cities Smarter: IoT and SDN Applications, Challenges, and Future Trends; From: Opportunities and Challenges of Industrial IoT in 5G and 6G Networks
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Chapter 32
From the Digital Divide to Multiple Divides: Technology, Society, and New Media Skills
technologies that enable a wide range of Information Society services, contributing to address people’s (basic) needs.
Published in Chapter: From the Digital Divide to Multiple Divides: Technology, Society, and New Media Skills; From: Handbook of Research on Overcoming Digital Divides: Constructing an Equitable and Competitive Information Society
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